We wish all the best to Othiambo who is
flying back home today, after 5 months of humble and dedicated service in
Chaaria.
He has been working mainly with our boys in
the Centre for disabled, but he has assisted us in physiotherapy as well, above
all when we were much in need due to lack of staff.
Our boys have greatly loved Othiambo for
his kindness, his patience and his very somber character: they have never seen
him high temper and they have always got what they were asking from him.
For Othiambo Chaaria has been a positive
experience of life, in which he has experienced the fact that we are very lucky
in life, because we have health, sound mind and freedom to do whatever we want:
living with the disabled has taught him that, when we are healthy and
financially stable, we have no right to complain. He has learned a lot from the
boys, who are able to be happy in spite of their situations.
Complaining about everything is a very
common attitude of so many people, and Othiambo admits that the experience with
the boys has helped him overcome such a habit very much.
Chaaria has also been an experience helping
him overcome his shyness: when he came he was extremely shy and quiet, but the
life in common with so many volunteers from different countries has opened him
up and has made him more talkative and smiling.
Othiambo will join the school of Medicine
back in Germany, and we are sure that Chaaria has given him some good human
preparation to it.
We ask him to be our ambassador in Germany,
and to invite doctors and other volunteers to come to Chaaria and to cooperate
with us.
We thank Othiambo for his nice words of
encouragement and appreciation about the work we do for the people of our
surroundings, and we wish him all the best for his future endeavors.
We hope to see him again in Chaaria,
because we have appreciated him very much. Even Tofi will miss him greatly.
Today we have escorted him only up to Meru,
because, according to his very somber character, he never wanted to disturb: he
has gone to Nairobi by matatu, and to the airport by taxi.
All the best, dear Othiambo: greet your
mother, whom we have met here in Chaaria, and your brother Martin who has been
our volunteer before you.
Safe journey to Germany.
Bro Beppe
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